Schleenhain

Schleenhain was a village community in the Borna district in the Leipzig district that existed until 1965 and had to give way to lignite mining by the Schleenhain open-cast mine . The area of ​​the place belongs today to the city of Groitzsch in the Saxon district of Leipzig .

Geographical location

The Schleenhain corridor is to the west of what is now the United Schleenhain open-cast mine . To the west of the town hall are the districts of Langenhain and Hohendorf belonging to Groitzsch .

history

Schleenhain was in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Borna until 1856 . From 1856 the place belonged to the Borna court office and from 1875 to the Borna district administration . In 1952 Schleenhain was assigned to the Borna district in the Leipzig district.

At that time, the Schleenhain opencast mine named after the location had been active since 1949. He approached the place from the south. In 1967/68 the place was devastated, before the 270 inhabitants of Schleenhain were resettled. The area of ​​the community was incorporated into the community of Hohendorf on September 1, 1965 , which was incorporated into Berndorf on January 1, 1974 . This was again incorporated into the town of Groitzsch in 1996 . The Schleenhain opencast mine has been operated as the United Schleenhain opencast mine since 1995 .

Development of the population

year population 1548/51 21 possessed men , 19 residents , 13 hooves 1764 22 possessed men, 4 cottagers , 13 hooves 1834 134 1871 153

year population 1890 187 1910 187 1925 179 1939 194

year population 1946 297 1950 284 1964 188

literature

• Christian environmental seminar Rötha eV, Kulturbüro Espenhain, Heimatverein Regis-Breitingen und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Memories of the villages of Blumroda , Hartmannsdorf , Görnitz , Deutzen and Schleenhain. Regis-Breitingen 1996, ISBN 3-930044-07-2

Web links

• Schleenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Schleenhain at www.devastiert.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
2. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
3. ^ Description of the Schleenhain opencast mine in a LMBV document
4. ↑ See Schleenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 17 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 44 ″  E